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major_west ([personal profile] major_west) wrote2009-06-30 09:38 am
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91 - Jailhouse Blues [Voice]

Congratulations. You won. Here's to an eternity of the status quo.

[After a pause]

Billy... Please tell me you're alright.

[AND IN THE BACKGROUND YOU CAN HEAR RAYNE SHOUTING THE FOLLOWING]

JESUSFUCKINGCHRISTMONKEYBALLS! SOMEONE BETTER BE LETTING ME OUT OF HERE OR-

[OOC: Major McCrazyface is in Level 0 now with a bandaged, possibly broken hand, a STILL stitched up leg, and a frown :c I'm pretty sure Inmates can't initiate private filters, hence his having to ask about Billy in public. ANYWAY. Visit him if you'd like; just spam it in this post]
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[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2009-06-30 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose. Trust is a luxury, where I come from.

[identity profile] roseoftime.livejournal.com 2009-06-30 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry for that.

I hope you can trust me, at least.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2009-06-30 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[He sighs and rubs his eyes tiredly]

Rose, if you trust me, I'll only disappoint you.

[identity profile] roseoftime.livejournal.com 2009-06-30 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course you will.

[She sighs]

West... you know I love the Doctor. I love him... more than anything in the world. In the universe, in any universe. I'd trust him with everything, with my life, and have, many times.

But even he's let me down at times. Kept things from me, been unable to save me from being stranded in an alternate universe... more.

Because no matter how much he'd like everyone to believe otherwise, he's not perfect. Neither are you. Neither am I. We fail, we make mistakes, we let our friends down, we let ourselves down. The only way we can move on is to forgive.

I forgive you. And I trust you.

[identity profile] roseoftime.livejournal.com 2009-06-30 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rose flinches slightly at such a curt answer, and swallows. She sits quietly, staring down at her hands, wondering if she's said something wrong.]

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2009-06-30 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Reluctantly, West gets off of the cot and approaches Rose, wrapping the fingers on his good hand around one of the bars.]

Rose, I am a terrible person.

[It feels weird to admit it]

I've done more than... keep secrets from or let down people who've trusted me in the past. And I have very few regrets.

[He doesn't quite sound like he believes that last bit. He looks down, swallows, and continues]

I hardly trust myself, and I don't want to put you in harm's way, but I can't promise that... I wouldn't do something even worse than all this one day.

[identity profile] roseoftime.livejournal.com 2009-06-30 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head]

There's no such thing. You were right about that. There's no such thing as a good person or a terrible person... there's only our choices, and at any time we can choose differently.

[She slides her hand gently over his]

I know you've done terrible things. You must have done, to be here. But admitting to it... recognizing that possibility... you can choose to do better. To be better.

[She smiles a little]

You remind me a bit of Jack, actually.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2009-06-30 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[He flinches a little at the physical contact, but doesn't move. He speaks softly, unsure of himself for the time being]

But sometimes, what's terrible is what's necessary.

[Then he looks up, slightly confused]

I do?

[identity profile] roseoftime.livejournal.com 2009-06-30 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[She keeps her hand lightly on his, and her voice is a sad murmur]

I know. The Doctor... he destroyed his own people in order to prevent the enslavement of the universe. I destroyed an entire species to save my own. The right thing... it isn't always easy. It isn't always pretty. And we get it wrong sometimes. Ask me about how I almost destroyed the universe sometime...

But we keep trying, we answer for our mistakes, and hopefully learn from them.

[She smiled at his reaction to Jack]

Do you know how I first met Jack?

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2009-06-30 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
You... [He blinks] almost destroyed the universe?

[Well, perhaps ordering the systematic rape of women and girls wasn't so bad-- no, wait, it still was]

[West shakes his head at her question]

No, I don't.

[identity profile] roseoftime.livejournal.com 2009-06-30 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[She laughs a little]

Yep. It's a long story I'll tell some other time, but the gist is I disobeyed the Doctor on something very important and caused the very fabric of reality to start to unravel.

[She squeezed his hand a tiny bit]

When I met Jack, he was a con artist, pretty much only interested in making a quid. He tried to con the Doctor and I, but it went wrong. Horribly wrong.

He helped us, though. In the end, he helped us to set things right. And wound up becoming one of my best friends.
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